AGF/Delay – SymptomsAGF/Delay – Symptoms

Symptoms is the second album of a couple Sasu Ripatti and Antye Greie-Fuch (a.k.a. Vladislav Delay/Luomo and AGF). Moderately danceable music, cold female vocal, clicks and clacks – this is the main thing about this techno/pop experiment. Antye whispers on Outbreak and Most Beautiful, gives a warning “something is always wrong” on Bulletproof. The variety of emotions is wide, but at the same time not that vivid. Downtown Snow is by far the most “pop” track of all:

Look, don’t touch
Listen, don’t talk…

Sometimes (like on Bulletproof) you can even hear a strain of emotions, tragic minor. And then you’re drawn back into the world of factory-like mechanisms. Techno tenderness in music, minimal layers that make the album very texture-like. The edge of Delay’s ambient habits and BPitch Control-techno rhythms. Downtown Snow, Generic and Symptoms comprise a pop triangle, they’re most easily remembered melodically. In general, the album can be called a good pop experiment in the techno field.